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  <h1>Changing Where Perspectives Open</h1>
  <p>You can change the default behavior for how perspectives are opened in the Workbench.</p>
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    <li>Open the <a class="command-link" href=
    'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Perspectives)")'>
    <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <b>General &gt; Perspectives</b></a>
    preference page.</li>
    <li>Select either <b>In the same window</b> or <b>In a new window</b> from the <b>Open a new perspective</b>
    group.</li>
    <li>Click <b>OK</b>.</li>
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  <h3 class="related">Related Concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/concepts-4.htm">Perspectives</a>
  <h3 class="related">Related Tasks</h3><a href="tasks-9f.htm">Opening perspectives</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-31.htm">Specifying the default perspective</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-28.htm">Switching between perspectives</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-9n.htm">Showing and hiding menu items and toolbar buttons</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-9m.htm">Configuring perspective command groups</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-9k.htm">Configuring perspective shortcuts</a>
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